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TravelinMan
I prefer the Les Paul sound. I guess it coincides with the expanded set list though. Did Taylor have two different LP's during his time with the Stones? He had that Bigsby plus top now, and had for years, but was that the Richards one? I know he had some axes stolen in France.
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Naturalust
Sounds pretty speculative to me. No real information that the Taylor/Richards Burst indeed has short magnets in the PAF's. But it would be great to try these pickup's out and do an A/B comparison of the vintage PAF's.
Taylor's best sounds came out of that SG he used to play anyway, imo.
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The first and only clone set of the pickups in the Taylor/Richards Burst! And I'm just going to say it, this set is freakin' cool! But imagine one day you get a call that goes like this, "Jon, holy shit, I got the Burst Mick Taylor played with the Stones in front of me, it has short mags and sounds amazing! I read the pickups at 73 degrees F so I have good numbers... Fed Ex me your gauss meter and I will read the gauss on these pups!!" So I say, "I'm headin' to Fed Ex right now!" Well that was the call I got from Kim Lafluer at Historic Makeovers recently. The result of that call and many hours of testing with the critical info plugged in, is the MT-102B MXV set.
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TravelinMan
I prefer the Les Paul sound. I guess it coincides with the expanded set list though. Did Taylor have two different LP's during his time with the Stones? He had that Bigsby plus top now, and had for years, but was that the Richards one? I know he had some axes stolen in France.
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TravelinMan
I prefer the Les Paul sound. I guess it coincides with the expanded set list though. Did Taylor have two different LP's during his time with the Stones? He had that Bigsby plus top now, and had for years, but was that the Richards one? I know he had some axes stolen in France.
AFAIK he has three Les Pauls at the moment. None of them are vintage: they're all '59 historics from the Gibson custom shop. The one he played on tour with the Stones was picked for him by Vic DaPra, I recall (possibly at the same time Ronnie got his reliced R9), and is quite a deep cherry sunburst with a Bigsby B7. The main one he played on his solo gigs before that and at the O2 shows also has a B7, but was more of a lemony burst and got a Dave Johnson / Historic Makeovers revamp before Taylor received it, presumably so it resembled the Keefburst a bit more. The third is a standard R9 without a Bigsby that was usually a backup on his solo shows. There were rumours going around that his former manager owned at least one of these (probably a load of nonsense, but I don't know).
I'm a bit surprised that Taylor never seems to get vintage pieces on loan from any of the big collectors, in the way that other big name players do (given that most collectors are baby boomers weaned on late 60s blues rock, and one or two of them actually own his old guitars, you'd think they would be offered to him sometimes, but apparently not.)
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TheGreek
please share some of the other big name players who use vintage instruments that are loaned to them from collectors?
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TravelinMan
I prefer the Les Paul sound. I guess it coincides with the expanded set list though. Did Taylor have two different LP's during his time with the Stones? He had that Bigsby plus top now, and had for years, but was that the Richards one? I know he had some axes stolen in France.
AFAIK he has three Les Pauls at the moment. None of them are vintage: they're all '59 historics from the Gibson custom shop. The one he played on tour with the Stones was picked for him by Vic DaPra, I recall (possibly at the same time Ronnie got his reliced R9), and is quite a deep cherry sunburst with a Bigsby B7. The main one he played on his solo gigs before that and at the O2 shows also has a B7, but was more of a lemony burst and got a Dave Johnson / Historic Makeovers revamp before Taylor received it, presumably so it resembled the Keefburst a bit more. The third is a standard R9 without a Bigsby that was usually a backup on his solo shows. There were rumours going around that his former manager owned at least one of these (probably a load of nonsense, but I don't know).
I'm a bit surprised that Taylor never seems to get vintage pieces on loan from any of the big collectors, in the way that other big name players do (given that most collectors are baby boomers weaned on late 60s blues rock, and one or two of them actually own his old guitars, you'd think they would be offered to him sometimes, but apparently not.)
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Naturalust
Sounds pretty speculative to me. No real information that the Taylor/Richards Burst indeed has short magnets in the PAF's. But it would be great to try these pickup's out and do an A/B comparison of the vintage PAF's.
Taylor's best sounds came out of that SG he used to play anyway, imo.
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Mathijs
The other LP is indeed the Keith Richards Bigsby Burst. This one was either stolen in 1971 at Nellcote or at a train platform, or sold by Taylor in 1971. This is unclear.
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Mathijs
The other LP is indeed the Keith Richards Bigsby Burst. This one was either stolen in 1971 at Nellcote or at a train platform, or sold by Taylor in 1971. This is unclear.
The one that got stolen at a railway station in the UK during the 1990s was a replica, wasn't it? It was his main guitar throughout the late 80s and early 90s:
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TheGreek
please share some of the other big name players who use vintage instruments that are loaned to them from collectors?
There's a couple of collectors whom own several known Bursts, like the burts of Peter Green, Duane Allman and Paul Kossoff. The owners lent these guitars to players like Derek Trucks and Joe Bonamassa for live use.
Mathijs
well Clapton used to have a pretty good size collection before he started selling off instruments to fund his crossroads rehab facility .loved to know which instruments Clapton lent out ?Quote
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TravelinMan
I prefer the Les Paul sound. I guess it coincides with the expanded set list though. Did Taylor have two different LP's during his time with the Stones? He had that Bigsby plus top now, and had for years, but was that the Richards one? I know he had some axes stolen in France.
AFAIK he has three Les Pauls at the moment. None of them are vintage: they're all '59 historics from the Gibson custom shop. The one he played on tour with the Stones was picked for him by Vic DaPra, I recall (possibly at the same time Ronnie got his reliced R9), and is quite a deep cherry sunburst with a Bigsby B7. The main one he played on his solo gigs before that and at the O2 shows also has a B7, but was more of a lemony burst and got a Dave Johnson / Historic Makeovers revamp before Taylor received it, presumably so it resembled the Keefburst a bit more. The third is a standard R9 without a Bigsby that was usually a backup on his solo shows. There were rumours going around that his former manager owned at least one of these (probably a load of nonsense, but I don't know).
I'm a bit surprised that Taylor never seems to get vintage pieces on loan from any of the big collectors, in the way that other big name players do (given that most collectors are baby boomers weaned on late 60s blues rock, and one or two of them actually own his old guitars, you'd think they would be offered to him sometimes, but apparently not.)
Derek Trucks, Warren Haynes, Bonamassa, JD Simo, Vince Gill are the ones that immediately spring to mind, I think Clapton's done it a few times as well.